Over 50 essays with
a Secular Jewish perspective on Jewish traditions by scholar Max Rosenfeld,
a Yiddish translator and lecturer on Yiddish culture, who translated
more than 25 books, including four by Yiddish poets. He was a founder
of the Sholom Aleichem Club.

Our mythology has been part of Jewish literacy
for centuries. Secular Jewish culture in Yiddish took over that mythology
and made it part of everyday speech, and you did not have to be a Talmudic
scholar to use it.

Excerpt
from the book

New Yorkish and Other
American Yiddish Stories

20 Stories --
15 Authors

Translated
by Max Rosenfeld

???Thanks to the work of editor-translator Max
Rosenfeld and the Sholom Aleichem Club of Philadelphia, who published
this attractive paperbound volume, readers unable to read Yiddish in the
original now have access to a remarkable body of American Yiddish literature.
This book fills an important gap in available Jewish works in English.
With a few notable exceptions, we have, until now, missed most of the
fine prose writers who wrote in America, about America and who wrote it
all
in Yiddish.???

MIRIAM ISAACS
Professor, University of Maryland
For The Book Peddler,
The National Yiddish Book Center

In an attempt to avoid the common minuscule type found with many CDs,
the Publications Committee of the Club decided to print a full-size
booklet. Each recording, cassette or CD, is accompanied by the booklet,
which includes short biographies of the creators of the CD and the full
Yiddish text (in transliteration) with a line-by-line translation of
every song. Original liner notes by Bob Freedman and Labovitz are printed
for each song.

The cover was designed by Ruthie Rosenfeld, artist for the Clubs award-winning
Haggadah for a Secular Celebration of Pesach (and the daughter
of Jack and Sylvia Rosenfeld). The booklet was prepared by Larry Schofer.
Larry and Jack Rosenfeld served as executive producers of the entire
project. For orders, contact Larry at 215.248.3762.